When
Join us at our 21st Annual Tinker Symposium and learn about the summer field research of funded graduate students on Thursday, November 5th at the Center for Larin American Studies, Marshall Building Room 280.
Schedule:
8:30-9:00: Morning Reception and Welcome Remarks
9:00-10:25: Session 1 | Migration, Borders, and Spaces of Humanitarianism (Edward Buck-Shannon, Brenda Machado, Mena Mendieta Escalante, Emily Morel)
10:30-11:55: Session 2 | Contested Pasts, Rights, and Sovereignty (Yecenia Andrade, David Blanco Gaitán, Albertine Pérez-Hope, Jesus Villalobos)
12:00-12:45: Lunch Break
12:45-2:10: Session 3 | Culture, Identity, and the Politics of Place (Anderson Gomes Barbosa, Margalit Katz, Diego Meriger, Caroline Scheuer Neves)
2:15-3:50: Session 4 | Language, Culture, and Everyday Life (Zcheecid Aguirre, Omar David Molina Santos, Kenia Okiyama, Amalia Sosa Haby)
3:50-4:00: Break
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anaís Roque
4:10-5:00: Keynote Lecture: "Water Governance, Community Organizing and Resilience in Puerto Rico". Marshall Room 490
5:00-6:00: Reception in Marshall 280
"Water Governance, Community Organizing and Resilience in Puerto Rico"
Across Latin America, scholarship has shown that community water governance is a form of provision, a site of political struggle, and search for water justice. Puerto Rico is rarely included in this conversation as its status as a U.S. territory places it between Latin American and U.S. frameworks. Yet Puerto Rico is a critical case for building theory at the intersection of hazards, water systems, and collective action. Reliability is not only a technical property of infrastructure but a social struggle that aggravates quality of life and well-being. Situating Puerto Rico within Latin American and North American water scholarship, provides an opportunity to re-evaluate stopgaps for water security in a region facing compounding disasters.
Anaís Roque is an environmental social scientist and John Hope Franklin Assistant Professor of Environmental Justice at Duke University who studies resource insecurity and health in the Anthropocene. Currently, her research agenda focuses on how households and communities experience, prepare for, and respond to food, energy, and water insecurity during “normal” times and in the wake of a hazard or disaster.